possible? His first attempt is shown by the dotted track. It will be
found that there are as many as fifty-five straight lines in his path,
but after many attempts he improved upon this. Can you get more than
fifty-five? You may end your path in any cell you like. Try the puzzle
with a pencil on chessboard diagrams, or you may regard them as rooks'
moves on a board.


324.--THE LION AND THE MAN.

In a public place in Rome there once stood a prison divided into
sixty-four cells, all open to the sky and all communicating with one
another, as shown in the illustration. The sports that here took place
were watched from a high tower. The favourite game was to place a
Christian in one corner cell and a lion in the diagonally opposite
corner and then leave them with all the inner doors open. The consequent
effect was sometimes most laughable. On one occasion the man was given a
sword. He was no coward, and was as anxious to find the lion as the lion
undoubtedly was to find him.

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